Open or Save to harddiskoption pop up window needed when clicked on pdf lin

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Subject : Open or Save to harddisk option pop up window needed when clicked on pdf link
I have a web application. There will be some pdf links in the application. When clicked on these links I read the content from database and output as bytestream. But when end user clicks these files the pdf will open in the browser or in Adobe based on his Adobe setting
Note : Experimentation done on Adobe Acrobat reader 5
Setting 1> Edit - Preferences - Options - Check on the 'Display PDF in browser' option
pdf opens up in the browser itself without asking any option
Setting 1> Edit - Preferences - Options - Check off the 'Display PDF in browser' option
on click it opens a windows pop up window asking me either to 'Open' or 'Save' . If I say Open it opens in Adobe.
Can this setting be controlled by my application itself [from Java servlets]? I want the opp up to be asked for every end user who clicks on the pdfs irrespective of what settings he has in Adobe Acrobat

Answer 1

I am not sure whether this will work. But it's possible to download the pdf file. Try the following
response.setContentType("application/download");
String filename = <<filename>>
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=\"" + filename + "\"");
Read the file into a bufferedOutputStream and then
int bytesA = bis.available();
response.setContentLength(bytesA);
write the content to ServletOutputStream..
Sagar